Business-focused legal analysis and insight in the most significant jurisdictions worldwide

Chen Yang

Ms Chen’s practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, capital markets transactions and venture capital and private equity. She has helped clients design company structures, conducted due diligence investigations and drafted related legal documents. Ms Chen has represented many Chinese and international companies in a wide variety of cross-border transactions in different industries such as real estate, the internet, information technology, energy, education and entertainment.

Welcome to the inaugural edition of The Initial Public Offerings Law Review. While it is largely agreed that the first ‘modern’ initial public offering (IPO) was by the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in 1602, IPOs now take place in nearly every corner of the world and involve a wide variety of companies in terms of size, industry and geography.